Is Lemmy.world centralization worth fighting against? (self.fedigrow)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Blaze to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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Probably a very polarizing question.

On the one hand, having most of the users and communities on LW causes technical issues (see this post), and also gives the LW staff too much power over Lemmy as a whole.

On the other hand, with 18k MAU on LW out of 47k (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/), every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance

History of LW controversial decisions

when they promoted Discord as an official communication channel (https://lemmy.world/post/3478399 - since then they created a Matrix chat)
when they blocked the piracy communities (https://lemmy.world/post/13320356 )
when they announced they might move from Lemmy to Sublinks (some comments from LW admins were quite controversial: https://lemmy.world/post/13899357 )
when they forced the media bias fact checker bot and discarded user feedback (https://lemmy.world/post/18775630 - to be fair, they since then removed it from !news@lemmy.world , it's still in !politics@lemmy.world )
when they realized centralization of communities on LW was impacting the ability of other instances to stay up to date (https://lemmy.world/post/13967373 )
when they updated their rules following a power trip overtake of a community (https://feddit.org/post/2308651 )

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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago

Other issues experiences by Aussie.zone: https://aussie.zone/post/9964509/11627914

Thank you @Baku@aussie.zone

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

spreading out a bit would be nice, although there are some things that could help some of these issues anyways

federation: parallel sending per instance
Federate lightweight list of communities to ease discovery / find remote communities (helps "every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance")

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 7 months ago

From what I read on the aussie.zone thread (https://aussie.zone/post/9964509/11627914 ) they already tried a few things

The last one would be to have a proxy in Europe, but they don't want to (which I can understand)

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

yea but the new parallel sending feature should help them more, we'll see when it gets released

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago

Hopefully soon!

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

It's already been in beta testing for a little while so probably releasing soon! Of course that's a bit of a risky change lol so I'll be waiting and see if any bugs are discovered in the weeks after release.

[-] Mr_Mofu 1 points 11 months ago

Yknow that's one of the main reasons why I exclusively create communitys and smallerish instances. Especially blahaj zone my beloved

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 7 months ago

Updated the post with history of LW controversial decisions

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Just an FYI, some of your links broke, seems to be because it included closing brackets as part of the URL. The 2nd and 3rd one and bottom 2, specifically